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Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

I'll make a... crazy ordinance-summoning architect, and a pretty-much-a-Stand-user Alternative. If two characters are fine, I mean. Hoping to make one a staff member.

@Cu Chulainn

Multiple characters are actually encouraged, especially if you're playing both a student and a staff member

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

I'll get to work on my hotblooded tsundere girl tomorrow I guess, since it's a bit late right now. XD

@Rin

Psh whatever, it's not like I WANTED you to post your character anyway, baka!

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

One question.

What would a Stand user be best classified under?

@Cu Chulainn

I'm not super familiar with Stands, but if I had to classify them they would probably be Architects (or possibly Alternatives)

Shounen Battle School Anime RP - Institute for Young Channellers

@Rin@Inmento Riku@blumenk@Dirty Dan@Western Robot@Poke@Azereiah@Mr Allen J@pkken@Hammerman@Yuuta@Zero Hex@VitaVitaAR@Krayzikk@Crimmy@HereComesTheSnow@Onarax@Lmpkio@Silvan Haven@Plank Sinatra@Mercurial@Shadow Daedalus@Western Robot

Alright, the OOC is finally up and ready for characters!

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

Akiko

Name: Akiko Futeki

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Personality: Akiko is very energetic, highly motivated, idealistic and has an optimism that is infectious. She's also stubborn, scrappy, impulsive, simple minded, naive and a bit of a brat

Her optimistic nature developed from her parents, who were very poor and always struggled to get by but always found a way to manage doing so. Through this she was taught that when you're handed a bad situation you don't have to lie down and take it, and has made it her goal in life to become successful at something in order to make money so she can help her parents and give them an easier life. All this makes her quite positive and optimistic, which is not something that you'd expect from a person like her

Her bratty, impulsive nature originates from the environment she grew up in. Living in a sketchy neighborhood full of thugs and bullies molded her into a rough and tough girl that is no stranger to a fight. When the bullies picked on her, she would take it as a challenge and stood up for herself physically. This lead to her becoming a little stubborn and easily frustrated when something got in her way that she couldn't deal with. She is also not one for rules and regulations, often seeing them as barriers to letting people achieve their goals, and will usually actively go against a rule that she sees as pointless and unnecessary

Akiko is the dictionary definition of book dumb but street smart. Partly due to her poor school experience, she is very slow to understand complex things like math and science, and is easily confused and dumbfounded when presented with those types of things. This, combined with her tendency to be somewhat spacey and empty headed at times, gives her the appearance of being an idiot. However, Akiko can also be a great practical thinker sometimes and can often come up with a simple but clever solution to a problem that no one else thought of but seem obvious in retrospect

Backstory: Akiko grew up in a very dangerous and bad neighborhood. Every day of hers was filled with fighting off vicious bullies that just wanted to make her feel awful, dealing with teachers that didn't give a damn about her and saw her as a hooligan, and living in a house that could just barely hold 3 people and was practically held together with paperclips and duct tape. This life, as harsh and unpleasant as it was, hardened her and taught her perseverance and determination. She learned to defend herself after getting fed up with getting beat up by bullies, and became good enough at it that she gained a bit of a reputation around school as a person not to be messed with. This, combined with the fact that she didn't really pay that much attention to her schoolwork, naturally caused her to get in trouble with her teachers on the regular

Appearance: Akiko is slightly shorter than an average girl her age, reaching around 4'8, and has a thin, athletic build. She has short, light red hair which is unstyled, messy and constantly in her face, as well as a line of freckles scattered across her cheeks and nose. Obviously not one to care about fashions, Akiko wears very basic clothing. Her common attire is a red zip up hoodie over a white tank top, along with worn out jeans

Equipment: An aluminum baseball bat. She intended to use this bat to play baseball with friends, but ended up using it a lot more to fight off thugs and bullies. She also hopes to get some kind of fire proof gloves or something because, as it turns out, creating explosions right next to your hands really hurts!

Abiltiies: Due to the environment she grew up in, Akiko is a great hand to hand combat fighter, especially for her age. She is self taught and developed her fighting style based on first hand experience and watching others as opposed to formally in a class, which makes her style very wild, unrefined and something of a mish-mash of random existing fighting styles. She also commonly uses a baseball bat as her weapon of choice

Channeller category: Wavecaster

Description of power: Akiko has the ability to control and produce fire from her body. She discovered this very recently, and hasn't learned much about it yet at all. In the future, she will learn to use explosions as her main method of attack along with fire

Names/descriptions of moves:
Lion Punch: Akiko reels back and then puts all of her physical energy into unleashing a huge punch at her opponent, creating a large explosion right in front of her fist as the punch connects
Tiger Kick: Akiko performs a double jump kick and creates explosions at her feet when each connect with the opponent
Tiger Panther Uppercut: Akiko performs an uppercut with an explosion at her fist, intending to send the opponent flying upwards
Leopard Leap: Akiko jumps up into the air and then immediately creates an explosion under her in order to propell her as far into the air as she possibly can, and then attempts to land near the opponent and perform a punch similar to the Lion Punch. This attack is devastating if it hits, but due to the unpredictability of it and how it's fairly easy to dodge, it's not a move to be used often

Character theme:

Other: She likes to eat a lot. She's also a nicknamer, due to her being bad at remembering names. She will rarely ever refer to someone with their actual name and just go with whatever nickname she came up with instead

Hana

Name: Hana Kakusareta

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Personality: Hana is the perfect example of a shrinking violet. She is incredibly passive, soft spoken and timid, she lacks any kind of self confidence whatsoever and is awkward in all social interactions. This awkwardness and lack of confidence stems from her childhood, as she was a pretty sheltered child with not much social interaction

Hana is also a very kind hearted girl, never wishing ill will on anyone and prefering to forgive someone if they wronged her or did something bad. This is due to how her parents raised her, who valued politeness and compassion and feared that she would become bratty and spoiled (because of her privileged lifestyle)

Hana will always choose to shy away from any kind of intimidating situation, never being able to stand up to the things that she finds scary. She hates this about herself, always worrying and complaining that she's "running away", but she's stuck in that way of thinking and can't ever break that habbit

Backstory: Hana came from a fairly privileged background. Her parents were pretty famous channellers who were even teachers in the Institute at one point and never had to worry about money. Most people would expect a child growing up in that environment to be spoiled and bratty, but luckily Hana's parents foresaw this possibility and did their best to teach her to value kindness, compassion and understanding throughout her life

Unfortuantely, due to her parents' overprotective nature, Hana lived a very sheltered lifestyle. She didn't really interact with a lot of people throughout her early life, which caused her to fear social interaction and become incredibly nervous around other people since she didn't understand how to act around them. She never really connected with anyone in her classes, and pretty much became the wallflower of her (regular) school. She didn't gain any friends, which lead to her staying indoors reading and gardening rather than going out to hang out with people. This lack of socialisation lead to her picking up some self esteem and confidence issues - developing a low opinion of herself

Hana discovered her powers at age 10, the earliest a channeller can possibly discover their powers. When her parents learned about this, they wasted no time teaching her how to use her powers. They did intend for her to eventually go to the Institute, but they wanted to make sure she was as prepared as she possibly could be first

Appearance: Hana is shorter than the average girl her age, only reaching 4'7. She has an incredibly skinny body type, and is pale as a ghost. She has long, violet hair that she wears down in order to intentionally cover her face. She has a light pink pullover hoodie (which was originally her mother's) that she wears with the hood ALWAYS up. Due to it being her mother's, the hoodie is also a size too big for her, which causes the sleeves to go past her hands most of the time

Equipment: None

Abilities:

Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power: Hana has the ability to accelerate the speed that her body moves, causing her to run and attack at incredibly high speeds. Her top running speed before entering the institute was 50 mph (almost double the speed of the fastest man alive), but she will likely become even faster than that over time (her personal goal is to reach the speed of sound). She can also throw attacks in the blink of an eye, which logically also have a lot of force behind them due to the speed at which they're thrown

Names/descriptions of moves:
Red Balsamine: Hana throws a regular punch at high speed
White Balsamine: Same as Red Balsamine, but a kick instead of a punch
Yellow Rose: Also similar to Red Balsamine, except she delivers a large flurry of high speed punches instead of one
Dahlia: Hana runs at someone as fast as possible and delivers a running punch as she reaches them

Other:

Asa

Name: Asa Mayonaka

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Personality: In most situations, Asa is the sweetest woman you will ever meet. Everyone who knows her would describe her as incredibly kind, understanding, compassionate, almost nurturing and motherly, and overall just the most pleasant person you could ever want to be around

...However, that all changes when she starts doing her job. She takes her job INCREDIBLY seriously, and when she starts teaching her students, it's almost like she switched brains with a completely different person. As a teacher she's extremely harsh, demanding, unappologetic, and nearly Drill Sergeant-esque

Backstory: Asa was the eldest child of three, and she lived in a family with a housewife mother and a father who was in the military. When growing up, she was mainly raised by her mother, who was a very kind soul and raised her children to be very compassionate and loving. Her father, when he was around, naturally took more of a tough-but-fair approach to his parenting, but Asa loved and looked up to them both equally

Unfortuantely, when Asa was 17, her mother died in a car crash. It was fairly sudden and none of the family had much time to react. Not only did this leave Asa heartbroken, but it also meant that due to her father's obligations, she had to be the dominant figure in the household. She was hesitant, unsure if she really had it in her, especially as her siblings had acting-up and lashing out since their mother's death. However, after watching her father control her siblings, she got the idea of using her father's style more than her mother's and it worked as well for her as it had for her father. She continued doing it more and more, and even started developing a fondness for it

Fuyu developed her first channeller power when she was 13, which was healing. She had learned how to use it pretty well, especially with the help of her mother. However, around the time her mother died, she started developing a second power, the ability to harden any area of her body. She was able to develop this ability as well, and soon became practically an expert at wielding them both

Many years later in Asa's life, once her siblings started getting old enough to where they didn't really need a parent any more, Asa decided she wanted to be a staff member at the Institute. When she applied, the staff of the school were incredibly impressed by her ability to wield her two powers at the same time. Having two different powers was fairly common, but the fact that the two were so opposite from each other and her ability to wield them so expertly at the same time was not. She was accepted into the Institute fairly easily, and has been there ever since

Appearance: Asa is fairly tall for her age, reaching 6'2, and has an athletic build. She has long, raven black hair that she normally keeps straight and unstyled, and wears a dark purple turtleneck sweater. When she wants to get into her "Drill Sergeant" mode, she takes off her sweater to reveal her black tank top, ties her hair up in a ponytail and puts on her military cap (given to her by her father)

Equipment:

Abilities: Asa is fairly skilled at hand to hand combat, due to both picking up a few things from her father and while developing her channeller powers
Channeller category: Augmenter and alternative

Description of power: Asa's first power is the ability to heal herself. She has mastered this ability very well, and can do it fairly quickly while doing pretty much anything. She can heal others as well, though she needs to make physical contact with them in order to do it

Asa's second power is the ability to harden any part of her body. This is most commonly done to prevent something from hurting her, but can also be done to increase the damage of her attacks. This ultimate defense of hers is incredibly powerful, but it has weaknessness. No matter how tough she makes it, her body will never be invincible and can always be broken through with enough power. She's also completely vulnerable to attacks that she's not expecting, since she has to harden her body preemptively

Names/descriptions of moves:
Beretta: Asa delivers a straight punch with her fist hardened
Garand: Asa delivers a roundhouse kick with her foot hardened
Double Barrel: Asa delivers a punch with both of her hardened fists towards the opponent's stomach area

Character theme:

Other:

STAFF CHARACTERS ONLY

Institute role: Teacher of the Power Training class. It's a class that focuses on practicing their powers in a hands on, practical way (instead of sitting down in a class). She also does a lot of mentoring as well

Why they were chosen for the Institute: Amazing talent for controlling two powers at once and much experience with handling children

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

The Institute for Young Channellers

OVERVIEW

Everyone in the world has a powerful energy deep inside them. This type of energy goes by many names: chi, ki, magic, mana, aura, spiritual pressure, chakra, and much more. Despite this however, only an extremely small percentage of the world has the ability to harness this power and wield it in whatever way they want, usually in ways that resemble super powers (shooting fire from their bodies, enhancing their natural strength, flight, etc). The few lucky people who have this ability are called "channellers" and for the most part live alongside regular humans in secret, but have also developed a secret society of channellers, most notably a school used for training those that have recently discovered their ability to manipulate their inner energy

ENERGY/POWERS DESCRIPTION

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Those who discover their ability to control their energy always discover it between the ages of 10 to 18. Accounts of others discovering their powers later or earlier in life, while theorietically not impossible, are unheard of. A human's inner energy reacts most strongly to intense and powerful emotions, and therefore the best way to utilize your powers would be to feel those emotions as strongly as possible. The powers manifest according to a person's personality (a channeller being angry will usually result in pyrokinesis, for example). Logically, all this means that a person who usually tends to feel a certain type of emotion more strongly will use and develop a certain type of power more often, and their powers in general will be based on what their personality is like

Powers rely on a person's inner energy to function, in the same way that a car relies on fuel. A person can only use their powers so much in a short amount of time before they start running out of energy and can't use their powers any more. Luckily a person's energy regenerates naturally over time, but it is commonly very slow and cannot come back fast enough in the heat of battle. It is common for channellers to "charge" their energy, an ability that forces their energy to build back up at a faster rate, but this takes heavy concentration and the user can't do anything else while doing it, which leaves them wide open for an attack. Other ways to build energy up faster are the same kinds of methods you would use to build up regular physical energy, such as sleeping and overall not being too physical for a while

Powers are much like real life talents and skills: there is technically no limit to how many powers a person can learn, but it relies heavily on their personality and skill, and the more powers you learn the less skilled you are at each one. Usually, a channeller starts with a single power that they stick with for most of their life. Sometimes later in their life, an channeller might discover that they also have a natural affinity for a second power as well and start developing it. However, they also might choose not to do this and prefer to hone their original power to a fine point instead

All channellers have the ability to "feel" someone else's energy, something like a sixth sense. This ability can also be honed and perfected like any other regular sense, even to the point where some users can sense a channeller across the planet or be able to tell the difference between one person's energy and another's if they've practiced it enough. There are some channellers who are born without this natural sense, much like being blind or deaf, but this is particularly rare

CHANNELLER CATEGORIES

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Generally, the abilities that channellers develop can be pretty much anything you can possibly imagine. Typically speaking however, the powers commonly manifest as one of 4 different categories: Augmenters, Wavecasters, Architects and Alternatives

Augmenters are those who use their energy to enhance or alter their own bodies and physical abilities. This can manifest in a number of ways, such as increasing their physical strength, giving themselves faster reflexes and reaction times, being able to see through walls, and much more. They are the most straightforward of channellers, and so there isn't too much to say about them. Due to their focus on their bodies and physical abilities, Augmenters are usually stereotyped as the "strong but dumb" type of people

Wavecasters are those who use their energy to control and manifest types of energy (excluding one's inner energy, of course). By far the most common type of Wavecaster is one who creates simplistic things, such as the 4 elements. However, it's also possible to make and control things like electricity, smoke and lasers, and even stranger and abstract things such as shadows, light and sound waves. Architects are by far the most common type of channellers, and therefore don't really have a stereotype about them due so many different people being that type

Architects, much like Wavecasters, use their energy to create and manifest objects, but these channellers are based more around solid objects instead of energy, such as swords, guns, bombs, armor, and much more. They are limited by the type, number and complexity of the objects they can create, so they can't create an infinite number of an object, they cant create any type of object they want at any time (so a blade channeller can only create things like swords and knives), and they have to understand how the object is constructed and functions in order to create it, so complicated things like machines are limited to people who can fully understand them. Architects can also create a certain type of animal, though they can only create empty bodies that they control, they can't create actual life. These channellers can also control already existing things as well (so a sword channeller can also control swords that he didn't create). This also works for animals as well, kind of like mind control for the animal. Architects tend to be seen as smart, logical and strategically minded, but also heavily reliant on tactics, having other things protecting and fighting for them and not being able to actually fight

Alternatives are those whose energy manifests in some other way. The rarest of the 4 categories, these people are outliers that defy the other 3 categories either by having a power that could fit into more than one category, or don't really fit ANY of the categories. Powers such as the ability to alter and negate someone else's energy, clone themselves, change the shape of their body, etc. Alternatives are usually stereotyped as weirdos, freaks and unpredictable

THE INSTITUTE

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In this world, there is an institution that has been made to help the younger channellers fully develop their powers. The school's staff is made up of a dream team of legendary and well known channellers, every staff member in the school is chosen due to their reputation for doing at least something majorly impressive in the channeller society. Though the institute is commonly referred to as a school, it's technically more of a combination of a school and a training camp. There ARE traditional school trappings, such as classrooms and proper classes which are used to teach the more overall basics of their powers, and these are definitely a large part of the school. However, because each student will develop their powers differently, a large part of the teaching proccess comes from the mentors. Mentors are members of the school staff that are personally assigned a specific student and are meant to personally help develop and hone their skills and abilities in a more personal 1 on 1 way. Of course there aren't as many mentors as there are students, so most of the time the classroom teachers are given mentor duty as well, and it's also sometimes common to see more than one student assigned to the same mentor

When a child or teenager first discovers their powers, that energy will be sensed by the staff of the school, which notifies them that a new channeller has appeared in the world. The school then sends a member (or members) of the staff to find the new channeller, and talk with them and their parents about the proposition of attending the school. If they all agree to the proposition, the staff will arrive (a couple days later so the student can prepare), and will then take the new student to the school which they will live at for a full season

When being taught how to use their powers, teachers will tell their students to focus their powers in specific ways, in the form of "moves". For example, if a student had the ability to control electricity, that student would be trained to practice firing a steady bolt of electricity from their hand. These specific moves are chosen and developed by the student, (with help from the teachers). Students are also taught to give these specific moves names and to say them outloud when performing them, as this lets them focus more on imagining the move when they're trying to do it

Along with their usual classes and training with their mentors, another big part of the school are the big events known as "The Exams". Exams are trials and challenges designed and planned by the staff of the school which are intended to gauge all of the students' skills. There are multiple exams every year and, due to them being designed by the staff members, each exam is different. One exam can be as simple as a written test, while another can be as intimidating as a rigorous physical challenge. Most of these take up an entire day of the school, and some of them are even longer than that. The Exams are usually seen as a big event and, depending on what the event is, sometimes are even done in front of a large crowd of people within the channeller community

RULES AND GENERAL COMMENTS ABOUT THE RP

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1: Obvious rules apply. No god modding, no power playing, no OP characters, etc.

2: This RP will specifically be playing on shounen anime cliches and tropes, as well as just anime tropes in general, so I'm looking for characters that intentionally play up the shounen character stereotypes. Y'know what I'm talking about: the firey, determined, naive airhead protagonist (Goku, Luffy, Naruto, Ichigo), the edgy, angsty, naturally talented rival (Vegeta, Sasuke, Hiei), the smart, supportive and motherly but also easily angered female character (Bulma, Sakura, Nami, Keiko), etc. If you can't really think of any character stereotypes that's perfectly fine, as long as your character is vibrant, fun and would fit in a shounen anime then they'll be welcome. You can even just base your character off of your favorite existing shounen character if you really want, as long as they're not a complete ripoff obviously

3: You can play as staff members as well as students. In fact, I'll need a fair amount of staff characters so I can have enough mentors to pair with students

4: The main driving force of the RP, other than the fights, is intended to be the character relationships and interactions. I'm intending for the players to interact with the other players and develop relationships between characters. Romantic relationships, friendships, rivalries (both the friendly and bitter types), etc. Not to say that there won't be ANYTHING happening in the school, as there will definitely be big events that the students will be participating in, but they will mainly be designed around having the students interacting with each other in interesting ways

5: There won't be that much of a formal school schedule to follow (not to say that the students won't be following a schedule in universe, just that you as a player won't be). I want the RP to be semi-open ended and freeflowing, so you can have your character be attending a certain class if you want them to be at whatever point in time for example

CHARACTER TEMPLATE

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Name:

Age:

Gender:

Personality:

Backstory:

Appearance:

Equipment:

Abilities: (their regular, non power related abilities)

Channeller category:

Description of power: (if they're a student, describe what powers you intend for them to develop and learn later on in the RP)

Names/descriptions of moves: (same as last category, describe what they will have in the future)

Character theme song: (just for fun, not mandatory)

Other:

STAFF CHARACTERS ONLY

Institute role:

Why they were chosen for the Institute:

Shounen Battle School Anime RP - Institute for Young Channellers

Alright, so I'm gonna start making the OOC now, and it's gonna be as it is right now without any more changes. If there's anyone who doesn't like the way the current RP is built, then I'm sorry but you just might have to move onto a different RP

Mr. GM, around what age are you looking for, as far as mentors go?

@Dirty Dan

I'm not too picky about the age, as long as it's an age that would make sense for a teacher

Shounen Battle School Anime RP - Institute for Young Channellers

I feel like the problem here is that people have different perceptions and ideas of what they feel like shounen is. I've honestly seen this kind of debate happen quite a lot, it can be a difficult thing to define properly for a lot of people and everyone draws the line at different places. The way I think of shounen is not the same as the way you think of shounen, and so an RP made to reflect the way I see shounen may not fit with the way you see it. I've listened to everyone's complaints and have been trying to be reasonable and alter my rules, but I feel like what some people here seem to be asking for is a complete upheaval of the RP, which is just simply not going to happen. If what I've already changed isn't enough, then maybe this RP simply isn't for you

For what it's worth, I do intend for the characters to learn more powerful attacks and get stronger as the RP goes on

Where does the OP say that it's all those shows in one? The OP actually lays out My Hero Academia, Soul Eater and Naruto as the biggest influences, and I know at least Naruto out of those three keeps thing constrained to chakra. Sure, chakra can do a lot of stuff, but you're not going to see somebody fighting in a mech suit in Naruto.

@Western Robot

In all fairness, Naruto did kinda get a little ridiculous around the Shippuden era (though I guess that's also the part of the show where most people seem to agree that it went downhill for that reason, me included)

Shounen Battle School Anime RP - Institute for Young Channellers

If you don't want over the top and want something more mild instead of spice, then you might not wanna mention shonen. Sounds like your wanting something more like Super Sentai, where things aren't as over the top and follow a theme, even if the story itself can be very nonsensical.

@Archmage MC

I would disagree that sentai shows are less over the top than shounen, though I guess I shouldn't say too much as I don't know too much about sentai

To be fair, death means almost nothing in most shonen animes, even the serious ones. Someone is going to be brought back by alchemy, or by dragonballs, or the like. And your probably going to need a system like this in place if you want a large character RP in shonen, as everyone will want to be the 'main character', and in shonen ones where death means something, the main character never dies or dies at the very end. And that sort of storytelling doesn't work when there will be 10+ main characters running around.

Or go the One Peace route and people are ultra durable and hardly ever die. No matter how bad the situation is. And only save death for a device where you need to progress the story.

I don't agree with this. Apart from the obvious Dragon Ball Z example, there aren't really that many examples of characters being revived in shounen that I can think of. Maybe I'm mistaken, but that's the perception I've always had

Shounen Battle School Anime RP - Institute for Young Channellers

I'm seeing one huge problem here. For an RP based around 'character interactions and building', your drastically limiting character build options for the sake of pvp 'balance' and making everything super watered down and boring in the process.

I mean, sure if you just want a hunter x hunter sorta thing going, then just say that. But then nein can be used to an extent that is very close if not exactly magic. (Greed island) or borderline alchemy (Chimera Ants) so it seems like that isn't even happening here.

I dunno, just seems like the initial vision, then your refinement of that vision, are two totally different ends of the spectrum. Aren't shonen anime supposed to be fun and over the top? Fist of the North Star being a great early example. Or bobobo, if you want a shonen parody. (I miss that one.)

@Archmage MC

What I really want is something that's a good medium. Something that's mostly fun and bombastic, but not so much that it can get dumb. If I ever implied that I wanted something other than that, then I apologize for misleading you. This is why I'm willing to bend on the item creation somewhat

If your super worried about PvP being unbalanced, you can always just make death an inconvenience instead of a certainty with dragonballs or something. Its not going to happen very often if your trying character development stuff anyway.

I don't really like that idea for the same reason I don't like it in those stories, it makes death meaningless and feel like there's barely any stakes at all